Last Days of Rome

@FistedFoucault What is actually the argument against this? Dropping a nuke cannot be tolerated

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It's a common practice documented across many societies around the world throughout history of men controlling access to desirable space and resources and threatening any woman who intrudes with gang-rape.

@Evolving_Moloch Please never stop posting! Whenever I hear of a wild practice I always think "Evolving Moloch has probably read an ethnology or has a post about this haha." Love your anthropological insights

@CorribEconomics @MarkGermaine Fair play for working it out but let's be honest- we're nitpicking here. We're not too far away from working for free half the year with little to show for it. Tax is never an issue on the table and it should be no.1. We play with it for everyone else

@LastDaysofRome @MarkGermaine The 47.2% is 40% tax + 3% USC + 4.2% PRSI, after €44,000.

Reality in Dublin 🇮🇪 > €40-50k starting comp > 52% tax on all earnings over €44k > 33% CGT and 38% on ETFs, on which you are taxed for unrealised gains > Average rent about €30k/yr > Highest energy prices in the world > It has rained almost every single day this year

@bowtiedwhitebat @Babygravy9 People with hemochromatosis can give weekly (around 375ml ) It's urgent for us to reduce iron. It won't be urgent for normal people. Start with a blood test to see your ferritin levels and go from there. Every 4-5 months is the standard blood donation timeline I think

@LastDaysofRome @Babygravy9 fook so guess i'll need todo that too.... howmany times u gave per month? and how many liters?

Konstantin Konstantinovs, one of the greatest powerlifters of all time, insisted on regularly giving blood. In the absence of regular warfare, he thought men needed to refresh their blood regularly. Many of the protective benefits may come from reducing levels of accumulated iron:

@CorribEconomics @MarkGermaine And Prsi + USC + whatever vat you pay. It's sheer robbery with not much to show for it (health/transport/crime/housing)

@MarkGermaine I get your point, but it's 47.2% marginal tax rate after €44,000. The 52% starts around €70k.

@TomOHanlon17 Hemochromatosis is dubbed "the Irish disease" because it appears in as high as 17% of Irish people due to genes.

Yet lactose intolerance is practically unheard of among Irish people 🥛🇮🇪 …..while the average around the world 🌎 is 65% lactose intolerance You can usually spot the head on an Irish fella at 20 paces anywhere in the world

@SCHIZO_FREQ @palis You can also host in on Manus for cents

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Let’s say I’ve vibe coded a simple website. As non-dev, how hard is it to get it hosted and can I do this through Claude or because requires payments I have to manually?

@bowtiedwhitebat @Babygravy9 Yes I've hemochromatosis so I had to give blood to lower iron. I originally tried to find out why I was low energy and thought it was my test but then I saw Paul saladino and others post on YouTube about how their SHBG was raised, they gave blood, iron lowered and test increased

@LastDaysofRome @Babygravy9 FR???

@Meta_Trav Proof

Unpopular opinion: the unemployment maxxer has the highest levels of testosterone

Quality piece. Agree with another poster that this is like a missing piece in the discussion. Just followed Anyone wondering what dimorphic behaviors look like, see Camille Paglia's "Sexual Personae"

@Meta_Trav Quality piece. Agree with another poster that this is like a missing piece in the discussion. Just followed Anyone wondering what dimorphic behaviors look like, see Camille Paglia's "Sexual Personae"

The reality of living in 3rd world shitholes: I've been a digital nomad for over 10 years. 60+ countries, every continent. The foreigner tax is real, and there's no way around it. The person in the quoted post complained they can't get a fixed price for anything. Everyone paying the same is a Western concept. In Thailand, I remember the price for street food was 30 baht (~$1). The sign said 30 baht, the people in front of my paid 30 baht. My price was 80 baht. Pointing to the sign above her with a single number (30 baht) doesn't help: you're a dirty foreigner and they'll charge you whatever they want. One of the questions I asked expats all over the world: do they always try to rip you off? Not a single expat said No. It doesn't matter if you've lived there for 20 years, married local, and speak the language. You're still a foreigner to be stolen from. Some countries learned if you treat foreigners well, it brings more foreigners (with their money). Thailand is the best example of this: far fewer scams than 15 years ago. But, still more than you might think. That reminds me of a fun story: the Lucky Buddha. Walking along in Bangkok, we're approached by a local. He speaks excellent English (warning sign for a scam), and says the national museum is closed today (it's not), so why not go see the Lucky Buddha? The local hails a tuk-tuk for you who will take you there for basically free. The Lucky Buddha is nothing more than a Buddhist temple, but there's a well-dressed man inside who strikes up a conversation. He's a jewel buyer for Tiffany / Cartier or whatever, and this is his last day in town to buy jewels at discount and don't you want to come see? We had long realized it was a scam so this is where we bailed out. We get back to the states, and my female talks to a friend who ALSO met a jewel buyer. "Yeah, I bought some jade and sapphires and they still haven't arrived..." Every ethnicity has a slur for foreigner. Gringo (yes this is a slur), gaijin (japan), farang (Thailand), thai balot (Vietnam), guiri (Spain), etc. Every taxi driver everywhere is lowlife scum who wants you dead. Literally the only places you can safely enter a taxi are in Dubai or Singapore. I've been scammed or held hostage by taxi drivers in a dozen+ countries. They'll drive you to a remote place and threaten to leave you there unless you pay them. Use the rideshare apps and/or do deals with your host to get around. My female and I will walk miles in the hot/cold with our backpacks if there's no Uber or equivalent. The taxi drivers we pass look pissed we don't want their help, but they'll scam us literally every single time. No thanks. The rules for locals and the rules for you are different. Dubai is quite open about this. In a court of law: Emirati > people with money > everyone else. I was in Hong Kong at a McDonald's standing in line (I didn't like the food in HK). A little Chinese mainlander grandma elbowed me in the ribs and started yelling at me. The HK McDonald's employee looked exasperated, but had me wait while he served her and others first. I broke some rule, I don't know what. Don't bother trying to look poor or fit in, you won't. A gypsie can spot a US person a mile away (it's the tennis shoes) and moves to pickpocket them. They'll pick you out by the hairstyle or even mannerisms. Just keep your guard up. When you're in public in these shitholes, you're a target. Some ethnicities only exist to lie, cheat, and steal. That's a horrible statement to write, but I assure you it's true. I don't need to tell you which ones. You'll figure it out. You'll be followed home by strange men. I remember in Venice an Eastern Euro followed us back to our Airbnb. It was obvious he was following us: 11pm, we were in a dead end alley with nothing around for several blocks. He was waiting for us to drop our guard. He pretended to be lost and turned around. This has happened many times, in many countries. They'll also hang around so see if you lock the doors when you leave. I could go on, but I won't. If the rest of the world hates me as a foreigner, why go there? Because the world is beautiful and has many wonderful people. I'm a target of racism every day. So what? You are too, probably. Suck it up and go live.

@nntaleb Is this link broken or is it just me?

No, there is no such thing as the Judeo-Christian civilization. Christianity stands every ancient belief on its head. medium.com/incerto/on-chr…

In 24 months some hobbyist is going to fix every Netflix and Disney fuckup with ai

@FistedFoucault Dunno what telegram groups you're apart of but you are my analysis of this conflict. TURBO AMERICA

Fog of War, but I think we can safely argue that at present: 1. US is frantically trying to locate each and every Iranian launch mechanism in order to neutralize launch capabilities 2. Iran is purposely trying to deplete US air defense stocks Repeated upper cuts vs. hooks